Rate My Professor Michael Gambone

Dr. Michael D. Gambone is a Professor in the Department of History at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches in the Society, History, and Culture program. He holds a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. His academic fields encompass Latin American History, Modern American History, and Military History. Gambone offers a range of courses including HIS 131 History of Latin America: Colonial, HIS 232 History of Latin America: Modern, HIS 233 20th Century Latin American Revolutions, HIS 170 Military History of the United States, HIS 259 America and World War II, HIS 300 Diplomatic History of the United States, HIS 246 The United States Since 1945, HIS 33 Conspiracies and Modern American History, HIS 26 The Emergence of Modern America, and CMP 101 Writing History for Veterans. His interest in Latin American history stems from his military service in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, where his unit's area of responsibility included Nicaragua.

Gambone is a prolific scholar with selected publications including Modern Conspiracies in America: Separating Fact from Fiction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), The New Praetorians: Modern American Veterans, Society, and Service in the Forever War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021), 'Conflated Reality: Reserve and Active Duty Components in American Wars' in American Defense Policy, 9th ed. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), Long Journeys Home: American Veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam (Texas A&M University Press, 2017), Small Wars: Low-Intensity Threats and the American Response since Vietnam (University of Tennessee Press, 2012), 'Men with Guns: The Private Military Corporation and International Law' in Wisconsin International Law Journal (2010), and The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society (Texas A&M University Press, 2005). He also contributed entries on 'Gulf War Veterans' and 'Iraq War Veterans' to the Encyclopedia of the Veteran in America (ABC-CLIO, 2009). In 2006, Gambone deployed to Iraq as a Department of the Army contractor, serving in Mosul. He received the 2007 Chambliss Faculty Research Award for his research contributions. His work examines American veterans, military policy, U.S. foreign engagements, and conspiracies in modern history, influencing scholarship on post-Vietnam military responses and veteran reintegration.